Money and Finance
- Baupost Sifted Through Energy Carnage As Bargains Rare
If anyone happens to have the full Baupost year-end letter and could pass it along, I'd be extremely grateful. Link to article: Baupost Sifted Through Energy Carnage as Bargains Rare Seth Klarman said his $28.5 billion Baupost Group identified...
- John Mauldin's Outside The Box: Seth Klarman: Investors Downplaying Risk “never Turns Out Well”
Link to: Seth Klarman: Investors Downplaying Risk “Never Turns Out Well”Today’s Outside the Box is unusual in that it isn’t an original document but rather a summary of a client letter from one of the greatest investors of our generation, Seth...
- Seth Klarman's Baupost Hedge Fund Loses More Than $150 Million On Gold Miners
In October, Marcel “Mac” DeGuire became president and chief operating officer of Guyana Goldfields, an exploration-stage company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange that has been losing money trying to develop gold mines in South America for years....
- Seth Klarman Goes Nuts On The Fed In His Latest Investor Letter
Update: There are more excerpts HERE. ----- Thanks to Will for passing this along. I haven’t seen a copy of the whole letter, but there is a very short excerpt in this article. Seth Klarman, the legendary head of Boston based hedge fund Baupost Group,...
- Baupost's Klarman Sees Poor Outlook For Stocks
Update (Sept. 2010): A great transcript came out in the September/October Financial Analysts Journal: HERE....................Star hedge fund manager Seth Klarman sees few bargains in the current environment and predicted on Tuesday that the stock market...
Money and Finance
Seth Klarman: The Oracle of Boston
HEDGE-FUND bosses rarely double as cult authors. But an out-of-print book by Seth Klarman, the boss of the Baupost Group, sells for as much as $2,499 on Amazon. A scanned version of “Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor” has been circulating around trading floors. One hedgie likens Mr Klarman’s book to the movie “Casablanca”: it has become a classic.
Why are Wall Street traders such avid readers of Mr Klarman? Baupost, which manages $25 billion, is the ninth-largest hedge fund in the world. Since 2007 its assets have more than tripled, as other funds have wobbled. Baupost has had only two negative years (in 1998 and 2008) since it launched in 1982, and is among the five most successful funds in terms of lifetime returns (see chart), a particularly striking record given its risk aversion. Long closed to new investors, Baupost counts elite endowments like those of Yale, Harvard and Stanford among its clients.
Soft-spoken and based in Boston, a safe distance from the Wall Street mêlée, Mr Klarman keeps a low profile and rarely speaks at industry shindigs. He is probably the most successful long-term performer in the hedge-fund industry who has managed to stay out of the spotlight.
- Baupost Sifted Through Energy Carnage As Bargains Rare
If anyone happens to have the full Baupost year-end letter and could pass it along, I'd be extremely grateful. Link to article: Baupost Sifted Through Energy Carnage as Bargains Rare Seth Klarman said his $28.5 billion Baupost Group identified...
- John Mauldin's Outside The Box: Seth Klarman: Investors Downplaying Risk “never Turns Out Well”
Link to: Seth Klarman: Investors Downplaying Risk “Never Turns Out Well”Today’s Outside the Box is unusual in that it isn’t an original document but rather a summary of a client letter from one of the greatest investors of our generation, Seth...
- Seth Klarman's Baupost Hedge Fund Loses More Than $150 Million On Gold Miners
In October, Marcel “Mac” DeGuire became president and chief operating officer of Guyana Goldfields, an exploration-stage company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange that has been losing money trying to develop gold mines in South America for years....
- Seth Klarman Goes Nuts On The Fed In His Latest Investor Letter
Update: There are more excerpts HERE. ----- Thanks to Will for passing this along. I haven’t seen a copy of the whole letter, but there is a very short excerpt in this article. Seth Klarman, the legendary head of Boston based hedge fund Baupost Group,...
- Baupost's Klarman Sees Poor Outlook For Stocks
Update (Sept. 2010): A great transcript came out in the September/October Financial Analysts Journal: HERE....................Star hedge fund manager Seth Klarman sees few bargains in the current environment and predicted on Tuesday that the stock market...